Friday Bolts – 7.5.13

Perk on the new picks: “I love them. I think they got great potential. You can just see the upside in them. We gonna develop ‘em, and they’re going to come to our program, and they know it’s one way how we do it, and that’s just work hard, put our hard hats on, and sooner or later, they gone get the picture and learn. We just see everybody improving, you know, I was watching a play yesterday from Jeremy Lamb. He’s improved a ton. I mean he’s shooting the 3-ball like no other, so I’m planning on trying to go on down to Summer League for a day or two to watch them play. But I’m excited. The youth that we got in, you know, even the young guys that we got now better, so I’m waiting to just lead them and go forward.”

Amin Elhassan of ESPN Insider on Martin’s deal: “I like the acquisition of Martin, but I don’t like the cost. This is the kind of deal Minnesota will regret two years from now. It’s not enough to get the right players; if the pay is inappropriate, it ruins flexibility to improve the roster in other areas.”

Darnell Mayberry on KD going back home: “At the end of the discussion, a few children get to ask Durant questions. Right off the bat, the first kid asks Durant which team he would like to play for besides the Thunder. Perhaps playing to his audience, Durant politely says he’d love to be back home playing for the Washington Wizards. He is showered with cheers, but he quickly adds he’s happy in Oklahoma and loves it there.”

Had a nightmare that we traded Reggie to the Lakers and then ended up playing them in the first game of the season. Reggie kept hitting all these ridiculously difficulty shots around the rim to keep it a tie game with under a minute to go. But then KD hit a buzzer beating 3 to win the game, final score 103 - 100.

@Lost Ones Wow, is this at Scott Brooks' beckoning? I can just see again Scott Brooks stubbornly playing Derek Fisher over more deserving players and then citing Fisher's "great defense" as his value. I am really gonna start developing doubts over Presti if this actually happens. Having Perk is bad enough, just don't give Scott Brooks another bad player to stubbornly play over all reason and logic.

Considering Jackson and Lamb have both bench guard spots locked up, then anytime Fisher is in the game he's either going to be taking minutes from one of them, or from starter's. Both of which are not ok.

@[corporate shill]@Old Man Game@dollarbillrussell Yes. We know that now. But at the time a lot of people reasonably concluded he would slot into Maynor's role of cheer leader from the bench and locker room voice. Didn't turn out that way and we can debate that until we're collectively blue in the face as to whether it was good or not.

Yes I'll debate the difference between 3-17 and 0-20, especially when a guy like Allen's highs were so head and shoulders above a guy like Fisher's. Fisher has never been a true knock down shooter, he's been a good shooter.

@dollarbillrussell Well you know, those guys don't have experience. How do you get experience? You play. How do you play, not by being buried behind some old guy in the rotation who plays rain or shine that's for sure.

Exactly. I'm a for him sitting on the bench as strictly a 3rd string point and voice in the lockerroom. However, the reality is that Brooks has shown in 2 consecutive seasons now that he will play him if he's on the roster; and play him significant minutes at that. If the team mantra is going to continue to be sustained success, then they've gotta quit taking minutes away from the younger guys so that Fisher can play

@[corporate shill]@Old Man Game@dollarbillrussell Sorry it's hard to remember through that 0-20 something slump. And you have to ask yourself, if the lineups with him were that successful with him shooting the ball that poorly, how good those lineups could have been with a better shooter?

@dollarbillrussell You can almost sympathize with Presti. On the one hand he's thinking, "but Fish would be a good third string PG." but on the other hand "but this is like giving matches to a pyromaniac."

Would it surprise me if he signs the corpse of Derek Fisher over competent back ups that would cost around the same amount of money? Yes that would surprise me. I would rather stand pat than bring Fisher back.

@[corporate shill]@dollarbillrussell Hard to compare a team not being active with budding stars to one with mature stars. their was no reason to be active before unlike now. our goal use to be making it to the playoffs, now it is multiple championships or bust.